To big business . And in the midst of this pandemic, access to abortion now in jeopardy. The acting president of planned parenthood is here to react. Economic activity is at a standstill and Many Americans are hurting. And there are protests today with people demanding businesses reopen in several states. The protests in maryland was organized by a group named reopen maryland to pressure the republican governor, layer ree hogan, to end lockdowns in the state. Joining me is ali vitali. What are you hearing from the protesters there . Reporter alicia, these protesters have been out here for a few hours. Theyre mostly protesting from my cars. You can see them driving around one of the circles here, protesting for the governor to reopen the state. Now, weve seen these kind of protests before in places like michigan and virginia. Those states happen to have democratic governors, but this seems to be a bipartisan push from a small minority of people in these states. Of course, larry hogan, a
Steve they were so lucky to be able to get in there, anxiously. Fire started down the street over 200,000 people are still without power this morning. Four states under both a covid19 and Severe Weather emergency as well. Janice dean joins us. She is tracking the storms where they could hit later on today, and she joins us. Janice, i read one report that 1. 3 Million People are without electricity this morning all the way from texas right up through pennsylvania. Janice yeah. We had incredible winds across the northeast and the midatlantic as the apparent low pressure system moved across the great lakes and northeast with wind gusts of 81 Miles Per Hour. So, an incredible system. We still have the tail end of the cold front that is stationed across florida and georgia. So we will still have the threat for, you know, not the outbreak we saw over the last couple of days but hail, isolated tornadoes with that stalled boundary. Look at the tornado reports, over 80 organization are i 880. T
Good morning, everyone. Im Ayman Mohyeldin here in new york with msnbcs continuing live coverage of the coronavirus crisis. These are the latest facts at this hour. President trump says some states could loosen stay at home restrictions as soon as today after unveiling his threetiered guidance for governorers. But at least 16 states and washington, d. C. , are actually extending the shutdown well into may or indefinitely. The key question this morning, are we really ready to safely reopen when some Health Experts say testing must double or even triple to get going . Our msnbc news team is spread around the country following the latest developments. Enhan hans nichols is at the white house, Shaquille Brewster and Morgan Chesky. Talk to us about the guidelines coming out of the d. C. Which should point out, dont give specific dates or location for reopening these businesses. Reporter the white house will say this is data driven. The president is focused on politics, not Public Health. He
Today. Thats going to do it for us. Ill see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, herachel. That old phrase sergeant at arms. Hr the arms part seems archaic. And meaningless. And then you have days like today. Those scenes, we have shown them on this show in the past. The pictures of the end of governor Gretchen Whitmers driveway with guys standing at the end of her driveway holding guns and wearing all the protrump stuff and shouting about the president and telling drop her policies. But its another thing to see them in the legislative chamber too. I actually dont know which one feels more antidemocratic. To but thats where we are. As we always stress about this, michigan has 9. 9 Million People. About. 9200 of them decided to out and do this today. And i cant do the math, rachel, on how tiny a slice of less than 1 that is. But that is a very, very tiny group thats doing this. Yeah, i mean, i think if you
That phrase, the sergeant at arms, the arms part seeming meaningless then you have days like today. Yeah. Those scenes from, i mean, we have shown them on this show in the past, pictures of the end of govern governor Gretchen Whitmers driveway with guys standing at the end of her driveway holding guns and wearing protrump stuff and shouting about the president and telling her to drop her policies but its another thing to see them in the legislative chamber. I dont know which one feels more anti democratic but thats where we are. And we always stress, michigan has 9. 9 Million People, about 2000 th of them decided t this today. I cant do the math on how tiny a slice of less than 1 that is but that is a very, very tiny group thats doing this. Yeah, i mean, i think if you did a census of everybody in michigan who braves their beard hair and wears fake military gear without being in the military, it might be a significant proportion but if you look at them versus the general population, ye